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• shared whiteboard

  allows two or more people to view and draw on a shared drawing surface e…

• competitive user testing

  a comparison of 2 or more user interfaces from competitive products u…

• backward compatibility

  designing software to work with previous versions of itself, e.g. by…

• web-safe color palette

  a set of 216 colors which display correctly on 8-bit monitors for both…

• CAUSE

  computer-aided usability engineering; tools to automate usabilit…

• shopping cart

  a common metaphor used in web-based ordering systems. Users search f…

• design rationale

  the reasoning that leads to design decisions. Documenting design ra…

• cognitive dimensions

  T.R.G. Green’s design principles for notations & programmin…